Word: adams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Across the street in Charity Hospital, other surgeons made an incision in Davis' right flank. They implanted the chimp's ureters in Davis' bladder, and made artery and vein connections. Within ten minutes after the hookup, Adam's kidneys began to purify Davis' blood and produce urine...
Davis did well for four days. Then his system tried to reject the graft. He ran a fever, and the kidneys began to falter. The doctors boosted Davis' dosage of immunity-suppressing drugs. To their relief, the treatment worked. In the fourth week there was another, similar crisis. Adam's kidneys were behaving toward their new host in about the way a transplanted human kidney would have. X rays and increased drug doses got the fever down and the kidneys went back to work...
...could still defend its use ethically and medically." One factor that gives this operation a better chance of success than the woman's is that her transplant, from a 25-lb. monkey, had small capacity. But even if they functioned at only 50% efficiency, the 80-lb. Adam's kidneys would still be capable of clearing the blood for the 130-lb. Davis...
Doris disguises herself as a Swedish nurse. Garner goes into traction, feigning a sprained back. At last he discovers that his missing missus spent all those moon-drenched nights marooned in an island paradise with bronzed He-Man Chuck Connors. She called him Adam, he called her Eve. "But nothing happened," Doris insists...
...double-dip chocolate soda." And in a courtroom climax, Doris demonstrates the All-America tactics that kept Eden intact: she crumples Connors with a swift jab to the midsection, slices one into the back of his neck, then whams her knee up for a jawbreaking finish. Adam is lucky to get away with his apple...